Metaverse and Education in the Digitalization Process

Abstract

In this article, the interaction of increasing digitalization with educational activities is mentioned. The metaverse, which is a new turning point of digitalization in recent years, is discussed at the conceptual level in the article. Despite the increasing use of metaverse in various sectors, the metaverse has not yet become widespread enough in the field of education. However, through the metaverse, there is the potential to realize activities that provide meaningful innovations in addition to traditional learning models. Especially in recent years, in line with the opportunities provided by technology, the tendency to use video in the field of education has started to come to the fore. Despite that; the lack of flexibility of the videos, the inability to provide sufficient interaction in the videos, the limited distribution, the lack of scalability and similar problems necessitate the use of new technologies such as metaverse. Based on the aforementioned requirement, in the article, meaningful contributions to this field were tried to be made by making a theoretical discussion over the literature review. By referring to the beneficial and possible disadvantageous aspects of metaverse applications, the mutual interaction with the field of education is explained with the support of the literature.